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Originally Posted by Doodles23
Wow! To get that many animation frames you have to give up a lot of sleep! I would do the same but nights that stay clear in Miami are rare indeed. We average about 3 doable nights in January. Excellent still frames as well.
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Thanks Dave, it must be frustrating for you to have so few clear nights, especially with Mars at higher altitudes in the Northern Hemisphere.
It is a bit the opposite from my observing site, I have many clear nights but with Mars reaching only about 34 degrees max alt. I really want to optimize the amount of data I can record close to opposition but all of the hours that I put in do catch up with me. If you were to ask my wife she would probably say that I was fairly fuzzy through the day, not much of an attention span.
Dave, I send all of my Mars data to the director of the B.A.A. Mars section and to his counterpart at the ALPO Mars section. I am pretty sure that our other hi res planetary imagers in OZ do likewise. That data really only gets into the public realm when the B.A.A. or ALPO publish reports from time to time. There is also a Mars observers group that a lot of people seem to contribute to and I also contributed some data but I much prefer the feed back that I get from the B.A.A. and ALPO Mars, I have found their comment of more value.